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Published on behalf of the Economic History Society under the General Editor, Professor Maurice Kirby, University of LancasterThis textbook series provides concise, authoritative guides to current interpretations of key themes in economic and social history. Each book in the series summarises the significant debates and advances in a major field of study, helping readers to draw their own conclusions. All titles include critical bibliographies and guides to further reading.

  • General Editors: Maurice Kirby, University of Lancaster

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25 results in New Studies in Economic and Social History

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The Development of the French Economy 1750–1914
  • Colin Heywood
  • Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    14 September 1995
  • Understanding French economic development in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has always proved a formidable challenge for historians. This concise 1995 survey for students is designed to make clear the areas of controversy among historians, and to guide the reader through the complexities of the debate. The author provides succinct surveys of findings on the pattern of development, and on the underlying causes of that pattern. He addresses questions such as: was France a latecomer or an early starter in industrialisation? Did long periods of protectionism help or hinder development? And was the peasantry an obstacle to change in the economy? He argues that France was not the 'backward economy' it was often thought to be; instead, it provides a quietly successful case of economic development, avoiding the massive social upheaval experienced elsewhere in Europe.

Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550–1860
  • 2nd edition
  • Roy Porter
  • Published online:
    29 October 2009
    Print publication:
    14 September 1995
  • In his short but authoritative study, Roy Porter examines the impact of disease upon the English and their responses to it before the widespread availability and public provision of medical care. Professor Porter incorporates into the revised second edition new perspectives offered by recent research into provincial medical history, the history of childbirth, and women's studies in the social history of medicine. He begins by sketching a picture of the threats posed by disease to population levels and social continuity from Tudor times to the Industrial Revolution, going on to consider the nature and development of the medical profession, attitudes to doctors and disease, and the growing commitment of the state to public health. Drawing together a wide range of often fragmentary material, and providing a detailed annotated bibliography, this book is an important guide to the history of medicine and to English social history.

Emigration from Europe 1815–1930
  • Dudley Baines
  • Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    14 September 1995
  • Why did 60 million people leave Europe for overseas destinations in the hundred years after the Napoleonic Wars? What were the social and economic causes and effects of this mass migration? Why did some people emigrate and not others, and why did so many emigrants return to Europe? This short comprehensive survey answers these and other questions regarding emigration from different parts of Europe in the years between 1815 and 1930. Written specifically for undergraduate students, it reviews the current literature in several European languages, summarises both economic and demographic theories, and analyses the relation between economic change in Europe and the emigration rate, as well as discussing the economic effects of immigration on the receiving countries and the social experiences or the immigrants.

The Economic Development of Japan 1868–1941
  • W. J. Macpherson
  • Published online:
    11 January 2010
    Print publication:
    14 September 1995
  • The rise of Japan from a position of relative international obscurity in the mid-nineteenth century to that of third largest industrial nation in the 1980s has elicited an enormous amount of interest among academics. This short book provides an overview of Japanese economic history between 1868 and 1941. It introduces and surveys the current state of scholarship on Japan, touching upon almost all elements of the Japanese historical experience. A select bibliography (now updated to 1994) is provided, to help the reader pursue the subject in more detail.

The Spanish Economy
  • From the Civil War to the European Community
  • Joseph Harrison
  • Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    14 September 1995
  • This book presents a concise survey of the Spanish economy from the end of the Civil War of 1936–9 to the present. In it the author analyses the transformation of Spain from a backward agrarian economy - committed by Franco and the country's military rulers to the impossible quest of self-sufficiency - to a modern, rapidly growing, outwardly orientated economy. By analysing demographic developments, changes in agriculture, industrial growth, changes to the financial system and the development of foreign trade, the author shows how Spain has reached a position where it is fully integrated into the international economy and, since January 1986, has been an active member of the European Community. This is a book both for students of twentieth century economic history, and for their teachers.

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